Spring Festival as the most important of the traditional Chinese festivals, has always been valued by thousands of families. It is said that "three miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs", we Hebei around the characteristics of the New Year's custom you understand? The first thing you need to do is to look at the different ways of doing things, and you will be able to see how they work!
● Ligustrum Palace Lantern
Ligustrum Palace Lantern history can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, according to legend, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty in order to celebrate the unification of the world's achievements, in the palace lights and colorful banquets, hanging lamps and lanterns, exquisite, Palace Lantern of the name thus born. Nowadays, Ligao Palace Lantern has become the Hebei Province intangible cultural heritage protection project, its shape exquisite, simple structure, colorful, auspicious, has become the New Year festivals decorating home, gifts to friends.
●Weixian Paper Cutting
Weixian Paper Cutting, also known as "Window Blossom", has a history of more than 200 years, with the initial pattern of flowers and other auspicious motifs, and then blended with the artistic characteristics of Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Painting and Wuqiang New Year Painting to form its own style. The theme of paper-cutting in Weixian County is wide and varied, including opera characters, myths and legends, flowers, birds, fish and insects, auspicious birds and beasts, etc. In 2006, paper-cutting in Weixian County was selected as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages.
● Playing Tree Flower
Playing Tree Flower is a distinctive ancient festival fire in Nuanquan Town of Weixian County, which has a history of more than 300 years and is a unique local folklore in the country. Performers use molten iron to splash the wall, bursting to form ten thousand sparks, like a leafy canopy, and thus the name "Tree Flower". The spectacular degree of playing tree flowers is far better than the fireworks, people use this to express the joy of welcoming the Spring Festival and the desire for a better life in the future.
● Wuqiang New Year's Paintings
Wuqiang New Year's Paintings is one of the folk crafts in Wuqiang County, which is a local art developed under the influence of the primitive farming methods, Buddhist ideology, traditional concepts, and ancient national customs. Its composition is full, line engraving is rough, coloring is bright, decoration is exaggerated, and festival features are strong, which is the best among folk New Year paintings. In addition to a large number of folk subjects, Wuqiang New Year paintings pay more attention to reflecting the changes of the times, in order to express people's concern for national affairs, and good expectations for life.
● Shadow play
Shadow play, formerly known as "shadow play" or "light and shadow play", is a kind of folk theater with light irradiation of animal skins or cardboard silhouettes of characters to perform stories. Tangshan shadow play is one of the local Chinese opera arts, also known as Luanzhou shadow, Leting shadow, is one of the most influential types of Chinese shadow play. Nowadays, more and more attention is paid to the protection and excavation of shadow play, and it is a good choice to accompany your family to enjoy a shadow play during the Spring Festival.
● Changshan war drums
Zhengding Changshan war drums have a long history, as early as the Warring States period has taken shape, to the Ming Dynasty has been prevalent in the folk, Zhengding is the history of the "Changshan County" seat, so called "Changshan war drums". Changshan War Drums are a kind of folk drums and gongs made up of drums, cymbals, cymbals, small cymbals, small gongs and other percussion instruments. The drums are powerful and resonant, creating a sense of unity of purpose and a sense of grandeur that is invincible. In the Spring Festival, temple fairs and other major festivals, we have to invite them to help, in order to strengthen the prestige.
● Defile Lahua
Defile Lahua originated from the street square flower fair, after many excavation, finishing, development, reputation in the country, famous overseas. Since ancient times, there have been the customs of performing flower show, setting off fireworks and enjoying lanterns on New Year's Day in Jingfu, and the Jingfu Lahua is the main program in the flower show, with its stretching and generous dance posture, strong and soft, and the music of simple and elegant, robust and deep, which brings a wonderful visual feast for the audience.
● Throwing sad hats
Throwing sad hats is a custom passed down in the Handan region in the New Year's Eve celebrations. Throwing sad hats on New Year's Eve in the dead of night, each family before going to bed, the head of the old hat or old head scarf, quietly thrown into the street. The next day, when cleaning the streets, and then sweep them into the nooks and crannies of the wall, to the fifteenth day of the first month, a fire burned. It is said that you can throw away a year's old worries and usher in a year of new joy.
● Lion Dance
The lion dance in Beili, Xushui District, Baoding City, has a long and distinguished history, and was performed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the form of a flower show at occasions such as the Zhangjia Temple Fair. Beili Village has been known as the township of the lion dance, the whole village up to the old old man, down to the dying child, everyone draped, each practicing.
●Colorful cloth twisted stage
Colorful cloth twisted stage is a unique artistry of the traditional Han handicrafts, refers to the wooden stage skeleton on the basis of the use of colorful cloth twisted into a high artistic value of the antique theater building. The colorful cloth twisted stage in Danyinbao Village, Handan City, is unique, is an excellent and ancient cultural heritage in Ji'nan area, and occupies an important position in Hebei Province and even in the country.
●Running Dry Boats